[linux-help] Re: speaking of ALSA and sound on linux...

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:58:57PM -0500, gLaNDix wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had this problem w/ either the sound drivers from ALSA or the
> kernel drivers:
> 
> 1.) make sure no sound daemons (ie: ESounD, aRTsd) are running
> 2.) Startup XMMS and play an mp3
> 3.) open a terminal window and excute a 'play <filename>' (does the play
> command exit with a "device busy" error or does it seem to "hang"?)
> 4.) Stop XMMS...  (does the file you tried to play in step 3 play now, or
> does the mp3 just stop playing w/ silence thereafter)...

I have no sound daemons running, so this was an easy test with ALSA
0.9.0Beta7.

I did the steps described and play executes perfectly.  In fact, I took
it one step further, started the .mp3 with xmms and then executed the
play command and had both sounds playing at once!  Tested with both a
.wav and .au file.

So it would appear that with Linux 2.2.19 and ALSA, your notification
would play right through the mp3.

HTH,

- Nate >>

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